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Jun 7, 2017
Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess
Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess
800–500 BC
Cotton, pigments
Overall: 34.3 x 36.2 cm (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.); Mounted: 39.1 x 41.3 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2017.56
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The fragment comes from a larger textile, perhaps a ceremonial hanging.
Description
The figure painted on this fragment represents a female deity with a large, fanged mouth. Further fanged heads occur on the chest, legs, feet, waist, and staffs of authority she holds. Edging both the staffs and the top of the head are white cotton bolls that have caused the deity to be dubbed the Cotton Goddess and associated with nature’s fertility.
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